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UK Tournament Report

Thu, 31/12/2015 - 18:45 — Tony Atkins

London Open

ISH

28 December 2015 - 31 December 2015

The 42nd London Open was dominated by Sai Sun (5d) from Beijing who won three titles.
She won the Open title and £120, with six wins out of seven, won the Lightning and also the
Pair Go with
Xinchi Gong. In all 76 players took part in the event, held as usual at ISH in London.

On hand to do game analysis and lectures was the professional from Romania, Catalin Taranu (5p).
He lectured on the opening and analysed the game between Andrew and Sai.

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Wed, 30/12/2015 - 15:37 — Tony Atkins

Online League

1 March 2015 - 1 December 2015

Congratulations to the Cambridge A team (Lou Yuxiang, Paul Smith, Atta Chui and James Wood) for winning the seventh season of the online league. In second place were Edinburgh 1. Winning division 2 and promotion to division 1 were UK Youth.

The winning teams received prizes consisting of places in Guo Juan's Group Classes and subscriptions to the Internet Lectures and Training system. See the
Internet Go School site for more details.

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Sun, 06/12/2015 - 00:20 — Tony Atkins

Coventry

Warwick University

5 December 2015

Local club player Ruizhu Wu (5d) won the Coventry Tournament at Warwick University.
He beat Guoqiang Sun (5d Warwick Uni) into second place by winning their game in the final round.
Former club organiser Bruno Poltronieri (4d Cambridge) took third place. Andre Cockburn
(6k Nottingham) won all three games, as did Simon Andre (8k Leicester). Edmund Smith (8k
Cambridge) took the junior prize.

Despite a late start thanks to the car delivering sets getting stuck in traffic on what
was a rather windy day, the 38 players were able to leave by 19:00 even if they
stayed for the prize-giving.

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Mon, 30/11/2015 - 14:19 — Tony Atkins

South London

London

28 November 2015

The Bexfield family managed to have the winner in each of the two sections at the South London Tournament. Alison (1d) won the four-player teachers' section and Charlotte (10k) won the 16-player handicap section. Both wins were awarded by the lowest grade tie-break, Alison from Alex Rix
and Tim Hunt, and Charlotte from Paolo Capriotti (5k Nottingham). The lowest graded players on two wins, who also won prizes, were David Siegwart, Ben Murphy, Francesco Chiarini, and Ryan Nguyen.

In the morning before the tournament the 16 students were taught by four teachers - Nick Krempel, Alex Rix, Tim Hunt and Alison Bexfield. Nick was replaced by the strongest student, Bruce Tinton, for the tournament.

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Mon, 23/11/2015 - 13:42 — Tony Atkins

British Youth

Aston

22 November 2015

The 2015 British Youth Go Championships (BYGC) featured 34 competitors, aged from 6 to 17 (including two foreign players currently resident in the UK), with strengths from 2 dan to 35 kyu. King Edward VI (Aston) School, Birmingham, was again the venue, thanks to Andrew Russell.
All games were played on full-sized (19 by 19) boards.

To determine the overall winner, Oscar Selby had to play and beat Alex Terry in a rapid
play-off game.

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Mon, 16/11/2015 - 17:15 — Tony Atkins

Three Peaks

Grange-over-Sands

14 November 2015 - 15 November 2015

The Three Peaks went very well at its current location of the Commodore in Grange-over-Sands, though it was a very wet and windy weekend. 32 players took part.

As organiser Bob Bagot is moving away from the town, next year will either have a new
organiser or a new venue. Any volunteers contact Bob.

Jitka Bartova (2d Leamington) won the tournament with five wins out of five.
Richard Hunter (2d Bristol) came second with four wins. Other prizes to Eggert Fruchtenicht (10k) for 5/5, Dave Horan (7k Chester) for 4/5 and Anthony Pitchford (10k Chester) for 3/4.

Roger Daniel gallantly declined the wine or chocolates offered to him for being the first to enter.

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Sun, 25/10/2015 - 22:00 — Tony Atkins

Wessex

Bath

25 October 2015

Ngoc-Trang Cao (3d), the strong French player from Leamington Club, won the 2015 Wessex.
She beat Jim Clare, Sandy Taylor and Richard Hunter to take the title. The only other player of the 34
entrants to win all three games was Roella Smith (9k) from Cambridge Juniors.

As before the venue was St Mark's Community Centre in Bath and the day was very sunny with a chance to explore the city centre or watch the marathon runners at lunch time.